collection of hyper-realistic black-and-white photographs of cars

From Sketch to Retrofuturism One Car, One Artwork, One Existence Between Memory and Mystery The Automobile as Dream Material

The Impossible Archive

of Karim Ben Amor

Aeron 719 (1973)

Linzaro GT (Unknown)

Miraluna (1985)

Monolita MK-I (1982)

Ray Spider (1975)

With Phantom Garages, designer Karim Ben Amor opens the doors to a parallel universe:
a collection of hyper-realistic black-and-white photographs of cars that never existed.

No Porsche, no Ferrari, no direct references yet every line feels hauntingly familiar. These imagined machines appear like ghosts from a past that never happened.

Each image unfolds like a museum archive, with precise framing, refined textures, and powerful contrasts.

You think you’re seeing a 1970s prototype, a forgotten 1980s coupé, a mysterious GT— but none of them ever rolled off an assembly line.

About

Designer and visual artist Karim Ben Amor explores the blurred lines between reality, memory, and imagination. Trained in product and visual design, his work merges aesthetic precision with conceptual storytelling.

[ Karim ben amor ]
[ Designer and visual artist ]

artworks

Through a meticulous creative process combining AI, digital tools, and detailed post-work, Ben Amor’s drawings evolve into hyper-realistic visions — imaginary vehicles made tangible.

Valera (1956)

Born from the jet-age dream, Valera embodies the elegance and arrogance of speed. Its endless hood and wing-like fins speak of an era when design was aspiration itself. A machine that never raced, yet feels ready to take flight. Frozen in silver light, it stands as a vision of what beauty once promised and never delivered.

Aeron 719 (1973)

Engineered by imagination rather than industry, Aeron 719 breathes calm precision. Its aerodynamic form recalls endurance racers built for eternity, not for victory. Light slides across its curves like wind over water, revealing a quiet discipline. A relic from a future that dreamed of grace over power.

Ray Spider (1975)

Classic yet hypnotic, Ray Spider draws from the golden age of American roadsters. It reinvents the past through the elegance of a timeless restomod, where every curve is memory reborn. A dialogue between strength and sensuality, suspended between nostalgia and desire. A car that never existed, yet feels deeply remembered.

Linzaro GT (Unknown)

Origin unknown, purpose undefined. The Linzaro GT could have emerged from Turin, Coventry, or a dream. Its proportions are immaculate, every curve a study in restraint, every line a quiet confession. Conceived by designer Karim Ben Amor, it stands as a grand tourer from another dimension - a trace of what design might have become in an alternate timeline.

Monolita MK-I (1982)

A mechanical monolith - silent, geometric, absolute. Monolita MK-I erases the notion of function to reveal only form, gravity, and memory. It feels more discovered than designed, as if unearthed from an alternate industrial age. An object that transforms motion into meditation.

Miraluna (1985)

A machine born from aggression and grace.
Miraluna embodies the spirit of a racing beast sculpted for precision rather than chaos. Its wide stance and exposed tires give it a primal presence - raw, untamed, yet perfectly balanced. The circular taillights glow like engines of memory, echoing a time when speed was both art and danger. Neither retro nor futuristic, Miraluna lives in the in-between - a vision of pure motion, captured in stillness

The Automobile as Dream Material

“For Karim Ben Amor, the automobile is more than a machine. It is a stage for emotion, a cultural icon, a vessel of collective desire. Phantom Garages transforms that fascination into a timeless mythology, where power, beauty, and speed exist in a world just beyond reality.”

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